This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver
Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
Why it matters
A brutal dive into Brazilian gothic horror where Coffin Joe’s nihilistic quest blurs the line between nightmare and folklore.
- José Mojica Marins embodies Coffin Joe with a chilling mix of charisma and menace, a true genre icon before the global horror boom.
- Practical effects and makeup lean into grotesque body horror that predates and arguably influences later cult shockers.
- A raw, unflinching exploration of obsession and blasphemy steeped in Brazilian cultural anxieties of the 1960s.
- For fans of vintage grindhouse and folk horror with a transgressive, surreal edge that still unsettles decades later.
Director
10 horror films in catalog
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul 1964
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse 1967
The Strange World of Coffin Joe 1968
The Awakening of the Beast 1970
The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe 1974
The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures 1976
Hellish Flesh 1977
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind 1978
Embodiment of Evil 2008
Dark Fables 2015
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
100
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
43
Supernatural
60
Creature
0
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
33
Cerebral
57
Survival
66
